Job description

Job Title: Speech Language Therapist

Location: Silver spring, MD

Duration : Full Time

Job Summary:

Role of speech therapist

Speech therapist does much more than simply teaching a child to correctly pronounce words. In fact, a speech therapist working with an autistic child may work on a wide range of skills including:

• Speech articulation: by oromotor exercises of lip and facial muscles, the way a child moves mouth while saying certain words and sounds.
• Communication: This includes teaching gestural communication, or training with PECS (picture exchange cards), electronic talking devices, and other non-verbal communication tools.
• Comprehension: The speech therapist engages the child in a functional language activities that involve cognition and social interaction.
• Speech pragmatics: Use of speech to build social relationships.
• Conversation skills: Self Talk, parallel talk, sentence elongation, situational talk
• Conceptual skills: Big and small concept, left & right concept, color concept, body parts concepts, yes and no concept

Facts about speech therapy

• Many parents make the mistake of considering speech therapy as a miracle cure, the solution to get their children up to speed in terms of their expressive, linguistic skills. It is not a cure, it is just training them to be better and help them to cope up with the surroundings.
• Just sending the child to a speech therapist for a few hours is not enough for training. The activities need to be practiced at home.
• Results are fast and evident within 3-4 sittings. Results need time and patience.
• Parents need to replicate the plan explained by the therapist at home.
• Therapy must be a part of routine activity in such a way that the child is not even aware that he or she is undergoing a “therapy session”.

Tips for the parents and caregivers

• Use flashcards and pictures to teach naming.
• Sing songs to teach the rhythm and flow of sentences.
• Avoid long sentences and verbal instruction.
• Use positive reinforcement to reward your child every time he or she successfully asks for something or identifies a object.
• Build conversational routines to help develop language.
• Has your child made eye contact with you when you say a word.
• Read aloud to your child from picture books that feature familiar objects and activities, like animals or going to school.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Up to $12,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work setting:

• Charter school
• Children's hospital
• Private school
• Public school
• School
• Special education school
• Teaching hospital

License/Certification:

• Speech Language Therapist (Required)

Work Location: On the road

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